The floating environments figure* and table* allow adding wide, single-column tables or figures in a two- or multicolumn document. Here is an example. Wide figure in a 3-column-document The example makes use of the multicol package. For two columns, it is sufficient to use the documentclass-option twocolumn. The starred version of figure, figure*, and … [Read more…]
Many books, theses and reports are written in LaTeX using the report or book document classes. Often, the authors make use of the default chapter style. There are, however, a great number of alternative styles available, some of which being very fancy or playful. This post is a collection of alternative chapter styles available, some … [Read more…]
I recently wanted to add a few empty lines to a document for taking handwritten notes on a printed copy. Somewhat similar to a package available for slides created with the document class beamer (see handoutWithNotes). However, I couldn’t find a package that allows me to do that. So I wrote a few lines of … [Read more…]
Probably not for your thesis, but nevertheless worth checking out: Hanno Rein wrote the LaTeX Coffee Stains package which adds beautiful coffee stains to documents. Usage (coffee4) Stains cofeAm: 270° circle stain (see example above) cofeBm: 60° circle stain cofeCm: two splashes, light color cofeDm: colorful twin splash (see example below) Parameters alpha: transparency factor … [Read more…]
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